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Three Russian war orphans stand amid the remains of what was once their home, in late 1942. After German forces destroyed the family’s house, they took the parents as prisoners, leaving the children abandoned.
https://redd.it/1k9keix
"Smoking is tacky" Brazilian anti-smoking poster by cartoonist Ziraldo, 1986
https://redd.it/1k8mnpk
Actress Brenda Marshall (1942)
https://redd.it/1k78ao0
The HMS Shannon and the USS Chesapeake exchange broadsides during their 15-minute battle on June 1st 1813 in Robin Brook's painting "Duel off Cape Anne." The Shannon's triumph brought to an end a string of U.S. frigate victories in the Atlantic during the War of 1812.
https://redd.it/1k8b9ak
A communist rams a horse rider with his car at the beginning of the Mexican Communist Party's attack on the Gold Shirt parade. An hour-long fight in Mexico City's main square killed three and injured about 50 people. 20 November 1935 [699×480]
https://redd.it/1k6x08e
View of Łódź, Poland in 1928. [2048x1495]
https://redd.it/1k7ewnm
Operation Nazi-U.S.A. cover art by Will Hulsey, 1976 (NSFW, swastika)
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A lone Soviet soldier walks away from a grave of his brothers-in-arms on the banks of the Volga, Stalingrad. 478,000-675,000 Red Army troops died in the brutal fighting. February 1943. [1456x956].
https://redd.it/1k7gka3
German governor of annexed Western Poland, Arthur Greiser, greets the millionth German colonist resettled to the Wartheland under his command. In the middle, SS official Heinz Reinefarth (March 1944)(799x564)
https://redd.it/1k6t49v
The Storyville Jazz Club, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1952
https://redd.it/1k60u4r
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna in the costumes of medieval tsar and duchess. 1903 [1396×2051]
https://redd.it/1k607da
George H.W. Bush's Stress Diet
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"stuck" KAL’s cartoon, the economist magazine 2022
https://redd.it/1k54j5e
During the German occupation of eastern Poland, Jews being forced to dig up graves of Ukrainian/Polish POWs massacred by the NKVD, after Jews were accused of collaborating with during the previous Soviet occupation. (July 1941)(800x562)
https://redd.it/1k9cms0
USS Saint Paul (CA-73) in the Western Pacific, circa 1966 [1775x1175]
https://redd.it/1k8to56
22 yr-old Charlie Johns reading the Bible to his 9 yr-old bride, Eunice Winstead. They married in 1937 and went on to have 9 children together.
https://redd.it/1k6t2bs
Soviet soldiers celebrating the victory over Germany at the Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945 (1799x1227)
https://redd.it/1k8fg95
Soviet premier Joseph Stalin and Japanese foreign minister Yōsuke Matsuoka pose for a photo after signing the Neutrality Pact in Moscow (April 13, 1941)(900x1095)
https://redd.it/1k71aag
Silent movie production: Western star Harry Carey confronts a villain while filming the 1916 film Love’s Lariat, as Universal tour guests observe the action. [1920 x 1342]
https://redd.it/1k7l2ro
80 years ago today - the day Soviet and Allied troops met at the River Elbe, near Torgau in Germany, April 25, 1945 [776x867][Colorized]
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Photo of the first transport of Soviet based ethnic Czechs arriving in Czechoslovakia after WW2. Transferred from annexed eastern Poland regions (Volhynia) by the Soviet Union. (February 1947)(820x860)
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My Mom in her senior year, 1975.
https://redd.it/1k763jn
"I’ll be a chemist!" (1964) by Boris Andreevich Reshetnikov
https://redd.it/1k6nre7
Exhausted Finnish soldier with his Suomi KP SMG and a supply of hand grenades at an outpost in south Finland during the Continuation War
https://redd.it/1k68365
Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his birthday party. All the attendees were dressed as Romans. 1934 [880x495]
https://redd.it/1k60c38
25 years ago today: 6-year-old Elián González was seized from his uncle's residence, April 22, 2000 [992x558]
https://redd.it/1k4z22m
Aktion 1005: Forced workers stand next to a machine used to crush human bones at Janowska concentration camp. German SS units removing traces of war crimes committed during the Soviet Union occupation before the arrival of the Red Army. (1944)(1280x962)
https://redd.it/1k5dznz
Sudeten Germans tearing down a Czechoslovak border post to unite with Germany, during the Sudeten Crisis, September 1938 (1000x673)
https://redd.it/1k561wk